McCarrick: What’s known about the abusive US ex-cardinal

ROME (AP) — The Vatican is releasing its report into the rise and fall of ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the once-influential American cardinal who was defrocked by Pope Francis in 2019 after a Vatican investigation confirmed decades of rumors that he was a sexual predator. When McCarrick’s sexual misconduct was revealed in 2018, the scandal sparked such a crisis of confidence in the Catholic Church hierarchies in the U.S. and Vatican that Francis approved new procedures to investig